https://sports.yahoo.com/coaching-carousel-herm-edwards-asu-just-doesnt-make-sense-051025957.html
Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson must have been jealous. He must have seen Tennessee athletic director John Currie’s flailing coaching search and tried to top him for short-sightedness, puzzling decisions and potential to ostracize his fan base.
We’ll see if Arizona State ends up going through with it. On paper the connection makes sense, as Anderson represented Edwards as an agent. And some of the bread crumbs that Anderson left at his disastrous press conference – like the new coach keeping his coordinators – made it likely that a coach with few ties to college football would soon enter the picture.
But taking a coach who hasn’t been on the sideline since 2008 and in college football since 1989 and expecting to magically take a middling program to new heights is simply naïve. This potential hire appears like an over-reliance on a friend and former client more than any type of common sense.
Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson must have been jealous. He must have seen Tennessee athletic director John Currie’s flailing coaching search and tried to top him for short-sightedness, puzzling decisions and potential to ostracize his fan base.
We’ll see if Arizona State ends up going through with it. On paper the connection makes sense, as Anderson represented Edwards as an agent. And some of the bread crumbs that Anderson left at his disastrous press conference – like the new coach keeping his coordinators – made it likely that a coach with few ties to college football would soon enter the picture.
But taking a coach who hasn’t been on the sideline since 2008 and in college football since 1989 and expecting to magically take a middling program to new heights is simply naïve. This potential hire appears like an over-reliance on a friend and former client more than any type of common sense.
